It's Here

          As I mentioned way back in this post, I have to determined, without any question, that I not only want an iPad... I need an iPad.

          Sure.  Maybe my reasoning was a little thin.  Maybe I made a few leaps of logic in a rather difficult attempt to justify a near $1000 luxury purchase... but I think I still managed to get there.  It's worth it.  I think.  Humor aside though, I do think I can make a convincing argument that an iPad will be very helpful in medical school.  I'm just not quite sure if it's a 700 dollar argument.

          In any event, Apple's new iPad will be available this coming Friday.  Fortunately, after about 4 seconds of deep analysis, I decided that I absolutely needed to get the new one, rather than the old.  Given that the old one was only discounted about 100 dollars, and the extra 100 buys you 4G speed, better graphics, and a better processor, I thought it was something of a no brainer.

          Don't worry, though, I did my due diligence and took a brief look at my finances.  After a brief look I discovered the interesting (troubling?) fact that my gap year job has done an excellent job of providing me with very little money.  Normally you would think this is a bad thing (and in fact, it is), but the silver lining here is that I have made so little money, I can justify blowing a large percentage of it on an iPad.  Had I made more money, I would probably have to convince myself to hang onto it to head off the coming debt bonanza.

          So, at the end of the day, yours truly has already placed a pre-order and cannot wait to receive his brand new iPad.  Some time during the summer, I'll probably be picking up a case (the kind that is durable enough to protect from nuclear warheads) and a keyboard.  I recently saw several very snazzy keyboard/cases for iPad 2's, and I couldn't help but think that they might be vastly superior to laptops for taking notes in lecture.  Between the fact that you can record video/audio, snap pictures, draw directly onto the screen (all those organic molecules...), and take notes with a fully functioning keyboard... well, I think they might actually be superior to an ordinary laptop, at least for the in class environment.

Not very snazzy, but it does look bomb-proof.

          I have started to vaguely look into apps that might be good for students, and I'll be sure to write an article about that in the future.  No sense in having this thing if I don't go all out with it and make it as useful as it can be.  I'll also be sure to post a little update when I finally get my paws on it.